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Archives – Winter 2000

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

David Locke Webster
David Locke Webster (1888-1976) had an unusually long and varied career. After having obtained a Harvard Ph.D. on the basis of his investigation of the optical properties of chlorine… Read More

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Changing paths, changing demographics for academics

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

The decade of the 1990s has seen considerable change in the career patterns for new doctorates in science and engineering. It was once common for new doctorates to move directly from their… Read More

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The Future Arrives First in California

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Thirty years ago, Lord Ashby, a distinguished foreign observer of U.S. higher education, commented that much of the thinking about higher education’s future in the United States was dominated by two topics:… Read More

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Universities Change, Core Values Should Not

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Half a dozen years ago, as I was looking at the research university landscape, the shape of the future looked so clear that only a fool could have failed to see what… Read More

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Too much ado about testing

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Nicholas Lemann, a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the outstanding history The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, tells a fascinating… Read More

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Support Them and They Will Come

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

On May 6, 1973, the National Academy of Engineering convened an historic conference in Washington, D.C., to address a national issue of crisis proportions. The Symposium on Increasing Minority Participation in Engineering… Read More

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Medical assault

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

In Undue Risk, Jonathan Moreno, professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia, tells the disturbing story of the U.S. government’s secret experiments on its own citizens. Driven primarily by… Read More

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Winter 2000 Update

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Independent drug evaluation
Innovation in public policy requires patience. Five years have passed since Raymond L. Woosley, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Georgetown University, made the case for the need… Read More

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Water Scarcity

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

The most capital-heavy and, in a sense, fundamental technology behind the extraordinary productivity of modern farming is irrigation. So ancient as to be paired with the emergence of the first cities and… Read More

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Biological warfare

Issues — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

During the past five years, concern that outlaw states and terrorists could resort to biological warfare (BW) against U.S. troops abroad or civilian populations at home has focused official and public attention… Read More

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